The Current Rules of Nomic mit Tens
Last Modified 5 October 1997
Immutable Rules
Rule 101. Obey The Rules
All players must always abide by all the rules then in effect, in the
form in which they are then in effect, and interpreted in accordance with
currently existing game custom. Until such time as they are legally
transmuted, Rules 101-115 are immutable, and Rules 201-219 are mutable.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 101
Rule 102. The Speaker and Voters
Each Player shall be either a Voter or the Speaker; no Player may be
both at the same time. There will always be one Speaker. The
term "Player" refers to any Voter or the Speaker.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 102
Rule 103. What Is A Rule Change?
A rule change must be one of the following: (1) the enactment repeal,
or amendment of a mutable rule; (2) the enactment, repeal, or amendment
of an amendment; or (3) the transmutation of an immutable rule into a mutable
rule, or vice versa.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 103
Rule 104. Adopting Proposals
All proposals made in the proper way shall be voted on. Three
conditions must be satisfied for a proposal to be adopted: (1) a quorum
must have been achieved; (2) the required number of votes must have been
cast in favor of the proposal; and (3) the prescribed voting period must
have elapsed or all players have cast a vote, whichever is first.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 104
Rule 105. Proposals Must Be Written Down
Any proposed rule change must be written down (or otherwise communicated
in print media) before it is voted on. If adopted, it must guide
play in the form in which it was voted on.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 105
Rule 106. When Proposals Can Take Effect
A rule change will take effect when either the prescribed voting period
has elapsed, or all players have cast their vote, whichever is first.
No rule change may have retroactive application.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 106
Rule 107. Numbering Proposals
The Speaker shall give each proposed rule change an ordinal number
for reference. The numbers shall begin with 301, and each rule
change proposed in the proper way shall receive the next successive ordinal,
whether or not the proposal is adopted. The effective ordinal number
of a rule is the ordinal number of the most recent change to that rule.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 107
Rule 108. Mutable/Immutable Inconsistencies
Mutable rules that are inconsistent in some way with some immutable
rule (except by proposing to transmute it) are wholly void and without
effect. They do not implicitly transmute immutable rules into mutable
rules and at the same time amend them. Rule changes that transmute
immutable rules into mutable rules will be effective only if they explicitly
state their transmuting effect.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 108
Rule 109. Making Proposals
The proper way to make a proposal is to send it by electronic mail
to the current Speaker. The Speaker will then distribute the proposal
to all Players. The prescribed voting period begins at the moment
that the proposal is distributed by the Speaker.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 109
Rule 110. Winning The Game
The state of affairs that constitutes winning the game may not be changed
from achieving n points to any other state of affairs. However,
the magnitude of n and the means of earning points may be changed,
and rules that establish a winner when play cannot be continued may be
enacted and (while mutable) be amended or repealed. The winner of
the last game shall become the new Speaker for the next game, assuming
all current duties allocated to the Speaker.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 110
Rule 111. Forfeiting The Game
A player always has the option to forfeit the game rather than continue
to play or incur a game penalty. No penalty worse than losing, in
the judgement of the player to incur it, may be imposed.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 111
Rule 112. At Least One Mutable Rule
There must always be at least one mutable rule. The adoption
of rule changes must never become completely inpermissible.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 112
Rule 113. Rule Changes That Affect Rule Changing Rules
Rule changes that affect rules needed to allow or apply rule changes
are as permissible as other rule changes. Even rule changes that
amend or repeal their own authority are permissible. No rule change
is impermissible solely on account of the self-reference or self-application
of a rule.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 113
Rule 114. Voting Options
Players may vote either for or against any proposal during the prescribed
voting period. Voters should send their vote by electronic mail to
the Speaker before the end of the voting period. Players who do not
vote within the prescribed period shall be deemed to have abstained.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 114
Rule 115. Permissibility Of The Unprohibited
Whatever is not explicitly prohibited or regulated by a rule is permitted
and unregulated, with the sole exception of changing the rules, which is
permitted only when a rule or set of rules explicitly or implicitly permits
it.
History: Initial Immutable Rule 115
Mutable Rules
Rule 201. Quorum
Quorum is defined to be 50% of the active registered players.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 201
Rule 203. Required Number Of Votes
The number of votes required to pass a proposal is two-thirds of the
votes legally cast within the prescribed voting period.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 203
Rule 204. One Player One Vote
Each player has exactly one vote.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 204
Rule 205. The Prescribed Voting Period
The prescribed voting period on a proposal is three days, starting
from the moment that the proposal is distributed by the Speaker.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 205
Rule 206. When Proposals Take Effect
An adopted proposal takes effect at the moment that the prescribed
voting period ends.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 206
Rule 207. Scoring When A Proposal Is Adopted
When a proposed rule change is adopted, those players who voted against
it receive 5 points each. A player whose proposed rule change is
adopted also receives 10 points.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 207
Rule 208. Scoring When A Proposal Is Defeated
When a proposed rule change is defeated, the player who proposed it
loses 10 points.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 208
Rule 209. Required Number Of Points To Win
The winner is the first player to achieve a score of 100 points.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 209
Rule 210. Resolving Conflicts
If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two or
more immutable rules conflict with one another, then the rule with the
lowest effective ordinal number takes precedence. If at least one
of the rules in conflict explicitly says of itself that it defers to another
rule (or type of rule) or takes precedence over another rule (or type of
rule), then such provisions shall supercede the numerical method for determining
precedence. If two or more rules claim to take precedence over one
another, or to defer to one another, then the numerical method must again
govern.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 210
Rule 211. Invoking Judgement
Any player who has a question or complaint about any matter concerning
the laws and their interpretation may email their statement to the Speaker,
who will then distribute it to the rest of the Voters. A call for
judgment is then incurred on that statement.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 211
Rule 212. Selecting A Judge
When Judgment has been called for, a Judge is randomly selected from
among the other registered players by the Speaker. The player selected
has 3 days in which to accept or refuse the appointment by posting to the
Speaker. Any player who does not respond to selection in 3 days shall
be penalized 10 points, and is deemed to have refused appointment.
If a selected player refuses appointment, then a further random selection
is made from the remaining pool.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 212
Rule 213. Delivering Judgment
Having accepted the appointment, a Judge has exactly one week in which
to post an official Judgment. A Judge who fails to deliver Judgment
within that period is penalized 10 points.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 213
Rule 214. Three Possible Judgments
There are only three possible Judgments: (1) True; (2) False; or (3)
Undecided. A Judgment may be accompanied by reasons and arguments,
but any such reasons and arguments form no part of the official Judgment
itself.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 214
Rule 215. Judgments Must Accord With The Rules
All Judgments must be in accordance with all the rules then in effect.
When the rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear on the statement in
question, however, then the Judge shall consider currently existing game
custom and the spirit of the game in reaching a decision.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 215
Rule 216. Judgments Are Not Rules
If a statement on which Judgment has been called is Judged to be true,
and that Judgment is not overruled, it does not thereby become a rule,
or any part of a rule. It merely becomes an explicit part of currently
accepted game custom.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 216
Rule 217. Overturning Judgments
At any time in the week following the posting of a Judgment of "true"
or "false", any player may propose that the Judgment be overruled, i.e.,
changed to "undecided". If that proposal is adopted, according to
whatever rules are currently in effect for the adoption of proposals, then
the Judgment is overruled, and the Judge who made it penalized 20 points.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 217
Rule 218. Registered Players
A player is any person who is registered as a player. No person
may register as a player more than once concurrently. Anyone is allowed
to observe the game and parrticipate in discussion of any issue, but no
person who is not a player may make a proposal, or vote on any proposal,
or call for judgment, or judge, or score points, or win the game.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 218
Rule 219. Winning By Paradox
If the rules are changed so that further play is impossible, or if
the legality of some action cannot be determined with finality, or if some
action appears equally legal and illegal, then a player may call for judgement
on a statement to that effect. If the statement is judged true, and
the judgement is not overruled, then the player who called for judgement
is declared the winner of the game. This rule takes precedence
over every other rule for determining the winner of the game.
History: Initial Mutable Rule 219
Rule 220. Name of this Nomic
The name of this Nomic is "Nomic Mit Tens".
History: Initial Mutable Rule 220
Rule 301. Clarafication rule
In proposals, all text in brackets ("[ ]") is not part of the proposal,
and is only used for clarification. This is called the "Clarafication rule."
History: Adopted in prehistory by Proposal 301
Rule 303. Yes, the initials have been chosen like that for a reason.
In this nomic there are two forms of currency, "Hofstadter" (H), and
Egberts (E). Egberts are worth 1/100th of 1 Hofstadter. Uses
of Hs and Es are to be determined later. Anyone who votes for this
proposal receives 5H. This is called "Yes, the initials have been chosen
like that for a reason."
History: Adopted in prehistory by Proposal 303
Rule 304. Hey! Name your children!
All rules must be given titles in the proposals. If a rule is
not given a title, the proposer loses 5 points, and the current speaker
then chooses a name for the rule. This is named "Hey! Name
your children!"
History: Adopted in prehistory by Proposal 304
Rule 305. 'Ay! Name your stupid kids and make them come here!
Rules may be referred to either by their number or their name.
This is called "'Ay! Name your stupid kids and make them come here!"
History: Adopted in prehistory by Proposal 305
Rule 306. Sub-Games
Players may create sub-games within this Nomic. The rules of a given
sub-game are whatever the creator of that game decides, although the creator
cannot arbitrarily change the rules of the sub-game during the sub-game
without the approval of two-thirds of the players. Only Players, as defined
by rule #102, may participate in sub-games, and no Player may join a sub-game
against his or her will, although Players may not leave sub-games except
as described in the rules to that sub-game. Prizes having value in this
Nomic may be awarded by sub-games, according to the rules of the sub-game,
but the total number of points, units of currency, and all other such things
having value in this Nomic held by all Players combined participating
in the sub-game cannot be altered by the sub-game. [so basically you can
transfer points/currency from player to player, but you can't generate
new units of points or currency]
History: Adopted in prehistory by Proposal 306